Wow.....am i confused now

I saw the commercial and totally scoffed! what a load of crap! high fructose corn syrup IS bad for you! Sure, you can have little bits of it here and there and it won't kill you but it sure isn't good for you!

Here's my response from another thread about this same thing:

Interesting indeed. Just goes to show that for every article about something being bad, there's one that says just the opposite (i.e. carbs, fat, sugar). It's getting so bad that we don't know who or what to believe nowadays. I remember reading the other day that tilapia was not good for you :noway: :noway: I've learned to take most of these articles with a grain of salt. Moderation is the key to everything.

Unfortunately comercials seem to make everyone confused.:ohwell: Research does the same thing. One time a research says one thing is bad for you another time it says its good for you - like coffee for instance. I heard that when you drink coffee it stimulates your appitite and can lead to over eating- not too long ago I heard about other research that claims coffee is good for your brain function. I think we all just need to eat or drink everything in moderation.

What I'm actually confused on is why my bread lists sugar as an ingredient however it lists 0g of sugar in the nutritional information. Even if it is less than a gram shouldn't it list <1g instead of 0g?

bread is mostly flour and water, so even though there's sugar in the ingredients, it's probably a relatively small amount. For example, when I bake whole wheat bread, I put a tablespoon in an entire loaf, so broken down by slice.

Also, because of food labeling laws (which have a lot of flaws, IMHO) if there's <1, they can say "zero". It's how PAM spray, which is oil, is listed as zero calories. . .serving size makes it <1. . .so "point" something. But if it's not one, it's zero.

why am i not surprised ... the food industry is a scary place. now its trying to make you believe that hfcs isnt all that bad ... what next ....

so isntead of loking at why hfcs is good .. i looked up the danger of it .. here is what i found

So, why is HFCS so bad for you? Researchers and nutritionists say that the
body doesn't digest, absorb and metabolize fructose the way it does sugar,
thus not triggering responses in hormones that regulate appetite and energy
use. This results in the body forcing the liver to convert the fructose into
fat and triggering the urge to want to eat more.

the urge to want more.................. to buy more .. not surprise that the food industry would want to do such thing.

According to a recent article in the American Journal for Clinical
Nutrition(1), high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is the possible culprit for the
obesity epidemic in America. HFCS, which has been linked to diseases such as
obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and breast cancer among
others,

i agree that once in a while it wont kill you, it just scares me that a food can make you addicted, and makes me sick. just the fact that the commercial was paid by a supportive organization makes me nervous about the whole thing, and obviously it works, because already a lot of people are changing their mind on hfcs...

anyways .. its all very interesting,
may

Plenty of foods can cause addiction. Coffee, tea, chocolate, and anything containing those ingredients--they all contain caffeine.

Of course the body doesn't metabolize all sugars the same. How could it? Enzymes only act on ONE substrate, and since we only use glucose and fructose in glycolysis, what do we do with other types of sugars? First, we have to break them apart, and then we might have to phosphorylate them to turn them into glucose, which is the only substrate that can enter glycolysis. We don't metabolize ANYTHING the same way, because it's physically impossible. Does it go directly to the liver? Yes, just like ANY sugar. The lumen of the small intestine soaks up our dietary sugars, and they travel through the blood stream to the liver, where they're stored as glycogen. (Some glycogen is stored in the muscles as well). Does sugar promote triglyceride formation? Absolutely, when eaten in excess. When liver glycogen is full, excess glucose is used to form fats. It doesn't matter whether you're eating a cookie, a piece of bread, an apple, or corn. If your glycogen levels are full, you're producing fat past that point.

As far as HFCS and appetite regulation...it's a glucose-containing sugar. Glucose causes blood sugar and insulin spikes, resulting in overcompensation and sharp decreases in BG levels following consumption, so you'll want to eat again. The same thing would happen if you consumed sugar. HFCS isn't good for you, but it's not any worse than regular old sugar. It's just a different name for the same thing, and you can link both to diabetes, obesity, etc.

Molly hit the nail on the head- eat it in moderation, and just recognize that it's simply a cheap replacement, not a deadly toxin.